In Lviv, doctors saved the life of a 22-year-old Lviv woman who suffered a penetrating wound to the heart during a missile strike on the city on September 4. As reported by “ZAXID.NET”, an ambulance took the injured woman to St. Luke's Hospital in critical condition.
The girl was in shock and experiencing severe pain in the heart area. The fragment that caused the injury was detected during a CT scan. It pierced the lung and the pericardium, the membrane surrounding the heart. The patient was urgently placed in a drain to drain blood from the pleural cavity, after which she was quickly transported to the Heart and Vascular Center of St. Panteleimon Hospital.
The head of the Center, cardiac surgeon Roman Domashych, noted that the girl's condition was life-threatening. "She was actually born in a shirt. I wonder how she got to us, because as soon as we removed the fragment from her heart, the affected area started bleeding profusely. Another millimeter and she would have died," the doctor said.
Cardiac surgeons performed a complex operation on a working heart. A fragment measuring 1x1.5 cm was stuck in the thickness of the heart muscle, on the border of the left and right ventricles. The operation lasted about an hour and a half and was successful.
The 22-year-old girl's life is currently out of danger, and she has already been discharged home. Thanks to the prompt actions of the doctors and the coordinated work of the Lviv medical teams, the patient's life was saved, who had suffered an extremely complex injury.
